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An impressive team at Stanford lead by Vittorio Sebastiano, Jay Sarkar, and Marco Quarta has found a way to turn adult cells into younger cells. That way, the cells don’t forget their assigned tasks since they maintain their cell type, but have the added advantage of having restored youthful performance.

On a recent trip to California, my goal was to document an aircraft’s actual interior cabin altitude, versus the altitude of that aircraft’s distance above the ground. Finding this altitude would tell me how much oxygen would be in the cabin, where lower altitudes would mean more available oxygen.

We modestly present a journey into our personal experience with "near field environmental factors" and health. This series will be the first entry in what we hope will become a shared resource that helps us all get better and better. Welcome to N of One!

The elderly have wisdom of great value to all, but few listen. Their story is worth being heard. If things don’t change, we will all share their experience. This first-person narrative is the result of years of interviews and the extensive experience of a Registered Nurse specializing in Geriatrics. We invite you to live a day in the live of a 90 year old.

What we know as “essential vitamins and minerals” are compounds whose absence has been observed to be immensely detrimental or even fatal to humans. Think of death by scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) or pellagra (niacin deficiency). But an important question to ask for each essential vitamin and mineral is: “over what timeframe do detrimental effects of deficiency manifest themselves?”

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